NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +319%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 20

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

-

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

960

120

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

254W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Barts

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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